Blow Your Mind

ALWAYS BLAME THE WHITE COP

Right after going off field training as a Ghetto gun slinger in South Central Los Angles, I was assigned to work a one man car on day shift. I received a "man with a gun" call and was about 30 seconds away from the location. I slid up on the location and saw a 40 something aged man, swinging a shotgun around, standing in the front yard of a well kept house.

Hearing other cop cars sliding up behind me, I took the lead... "Drop the shotgun NOW" The suspect ignored me and kept yelling for a woman to come outside and talk to him. It turned out that he had raped the 15 year old daughter of the woman that lived at the house and he wanted to talk to her, (With a shotgun?) She was on the phone with our 911 dispatch, safe and sound inside the house.

I kept yelling at him to drop the gun. He continued to ignore me and the other cops gathered at the scene. Finally, he yelled "If you don't come out, I am gonna kill myself." Without further ado, the suspect dropped to his knees, screwed the shotgun under his chin and pulled the trigger on his 12 gauge street cannon. The results were quite a crowd pleaser. His shotgun went one way, his head, above the lower jaw, turned into a red mist and chunks of skull and brain material.

For reasons that defy gravity, the suspect remained on his knees and began making a "Ugggggggh ugggggh uggggh, sound." After a minute or so, he flopped forward and poured out most of the blood remaining in his body, through his new neck hole. Cops and citizens in the audience ran in every direction. I had seen this sort of thing many times before as a coroner's investigator and mortician, so I headed towards the body.

The shotgun blast had peeked the interest of the woman inside the house that he had been yelling at so she wandered out on her front porch. "WHY DID YOU SHOOT HIM, MOTHERFUCKER?" "He weren't gonna do nuth'in....." It was the first of many times I would be accused, falsely, of causing harm or death to a minority citizen in that community.